M.Sc., Applied Earth Observation and Geoanalysis of the Living Environment (EAGLE)

Julius-Maximilians-University

Würzburg, Germany

today - 10/2021

B.Sc., Geography

Julius-Maximilians-University

Würzburg, Germany

09/2021 - 10/2017

• Specialization: Remote Sensing, Physical Geography
• Final grade: 1,3
• Member of the Geography Student Council (internal organization, treasurer, first semester advising, institute communication, organization of events and lecture series)

Master-Thesis

Team Information Systems and Geomatics - Department Geo-Risks and Civil Security
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Chair of Remote Sensing
Julius-Maximilians-University

Weßling, Germany

11/2023 - 05/2023

• Thesis-Title: Daily spread prediction of European wildfires based on Earth observation time series and historical weather records using Deep Learning
• Development of a Deep Learning model to predict the spread of wildfires in Europe
• Application of spatio-temporal Graph Neural Networks and Recurrent Neural Networks to predict daily burnt areas using historical remote sensing products and weather data

Intern

Team Information Systems and Geomatics - Department Geo-Risks and Civil Security
German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Weßling, Germany

03/2023 - 01/2023

• Establish a database for analyzing historic forest fire activity from 2016-2022 in Europe based on a discrete H3 grid system
• Processing and combination of fire-relevant data sources on a S3 cloud storage and automated generation of daily updating datasets for individual wildfires

Intern

RSS - Remote Sensing Solutions GmbH

München, Germany

12/2022 - 10/2022

• Development of an automated processing pipeline for mapping bare soil areas at regional scale using Sentinel-2 time series
• Modeling soil organic carbon content at regional scale based on spectral bare soil composite and LUCAS reference data

Research assistant project “Megacities”

Team City and Society - Department Geo-Risks and Civil Security
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Chair of English Linguistics
Julius-Maximilians-University

Würzburg, Germany

09/2022 - 04/2022

• Analyzing sociocultural structures in megacities using the spatial distribution of Twitter data
• Cleaning and processing of Tweets from different European countries
• Application of geostatistical and linguistic methods

Bachlor-Thesis

Team Natural Hazards - Department Geo-Risks and Civil Security
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Chair of Remote Sensing
Julius-Maximilians-University

Remote

07/2021 - 04/2021

• Thesis-Title: Monitoring of volcanic natural hazards in Indonesia. Change analyses based on high-resolution PlanetScope data combined with further Earth observation data (in German)
• Develop new methods for mapping volcanic natural hazards (e.g., lava) based on high-resolution PlanetScope data, infrared data (Sentinel-2, Landsat-8, Terra/Aqua MODIS, Soumi-NPP VIIRS), and digital elevation models

Student assistant project “AgriSens”

Chair of Remote Sensing
Julius-Maximilians-University

Würzburg, Germany

02/2021 - 04/2020

• Collaboration in the development of an Open Data Cube (ODC) infrastructure
• Co-development of a Python package for processing multitemporal satellite data on the ODC platform
• Development of training and tutorial Jupyter notebooks for spatiotemporal analysis of geospatial data on the ODC platform

Student assistant (tutor)

Chair of Remote Sensing
Julius-Maximilians-University

Würzburg, Germany

02/2021 - 10/2018

• Direction and preparation of the tutorials for the lecture Introduction to Geographic Remote Sensing and Application of Remote Sensing in Geography

Intern

Institute for Earth Observation
Eurac research

Bolzano, Italy

03/2020 - 01/2020

• Evaluation of high-resolution PlanetScope data for applications in alpine regions
• Development of classification workflows for the mapping of mountain pine in South Tyrol
• Satellite-based monitoring of pest infestation and forest vitality

Intern

Team Natural Hazards - Department Geo-Risks and Civil Security
German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Weßling, Germany

12/2019 - 10/2019

• Satellite-based volcano monitoring using thermal and infrared data
• Development of automated scripts for the calculation of erupted lava volume

Student assistant project “LandKlif”

Chair of Remote Sensing
Julius-Maximilians-University

Würzburg, Germany

09/2019 - 05/2019

• Planning drone field campaign and taking aerial photos
• Processing of digital terrain models and orthophotos

Coding

R, Python (advanced)

N/A

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GIS / Remote Sensing Software

QGIS, ArcGIS, ENVI (advanced)
Google Earth Engine (advanced)
SNAP, eCognition (intermediate)
GRASS GIS, SAGA GIS (basic)

N/A

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Database / Cloud

PostgreSQL, PostGIS (basic)
AWS S3 (basic)

N/A

N/A

Version Control

Git, GitHub, GitLab (advanced)

N/A

N/A

Other Software

MS Office (advanced)

N/A

N/A

German

Native language

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English

fluent in spoken and written

N/A

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French

school knowledge

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SAR EDU summer school for applied radar remote sensing

Friedrich-Schiller-University

Jena, Germany

09/2019

• five-day seminar (40 hours)

Stay abroad Asia, Autralia, USA

N/A

N/A

12/2016 - 06/2016